Intel Corp. bumped up the release of its first dual-core, hyper-threaded processors for servers with four or more processors, the company reported today. The chips were originally target to be released early 2006.

The Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7000, formerly codenamed “Paxville,” is shipping today with speeds up to 3GHz and a 667MHz dual independent system bus. The new processors fit into Intel’s existing platforms using the E8500 dual-core chipset that shipped earlier this year.

The platform shipping today includes DDR2 memory, PCI Express, advanced reliability features, and hardware-enabled support for Intel Virtualization Technology, designed to provide hardware support within the processor for virtualized server applications to make them more reliable, robust and efficient. Intel said it is also working with the industry to turn on this capability via a BIOS switch early next year.

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